APPEAL TO SLAVS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 284, 29 August 1942, Page 10

APPEAL TO SLAVS

Exert Utmost Efforts In

The War

“The Yugoslavs, Czechoslovaks, Poles and Russians greet with satisfaction and great joy the historic meeting at Moscow of the British and •Soviet Premiers, Mr. Churchill and M. Stalin, together with the representative of President Roosevelt, Mr. Harriman, which resulted in a declaration of mutual understanding and in strengthening the Allied bonds of friendship,” says a statement issued yesterday by the Slavonic Council of New Zealand. “This positive and clear declaration had lifted from our shoulders the heavy burden of uncertainty of the eventual opening of the second front. It has raised our spirit and strengthened our determination in organizing for defeat of our Fascist enemies. Hence the Slavonic Council calls on all Slavs, descendants of Slavs and citizens of Slavonic States to double their efforts and take the honourable place in the foremost ranks of the most productive workers in industries connected with manufacture of military and other necessities.” Slavonic farmers are called upon to do their utmost to increase the output of their primary products; Slavonic brain workers and technicians are appealed to to devote all their knowledge and energy to all-out war-effort. The proclamation concludes: “Long live the fighting brotherhood of the British Empire, United States of America, Soviet Union, our Slavonic States, and of all the enslaved countries which arc heroically fighting on the land, in the air, and underground against the Fascist- aggressors 1”